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WOOL WASHING MAMCHINE. I

Patented Sept. 5,, 1882.

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77 v Q 3 1 WQ UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

FREDERICK G. SARGENT AND ALLEN G. SARGENT, OF GRANITEVILLE, MASS.

WOOL-WASHING MACHINE.

. I SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 263,727, datedSeptember 5, 1882.

Application filed May 23, 1882. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that we, FREDERICK G. SAR- GENT and ALLEN (l. SARGENT, ofGr'anitevillc, in the county of Middlesex and State of Massachusetts,have invented a new and useful Wool-Washing Machine, of which thefollowing is a specification.

Our invention relates to machines provided with a bowl into which ascouring-fluid is placed, into which the wool is put, and from which itis taken and passed between squeezerolls; and its objects are to providea mechanism which will take the wool from the bowl and deliver it to thenip of the squeeze-rolls, which shall occupy very little of the bowl,and obviate the necessity of using an inclined apron over which toconvey the wool to the squeeze-rolls, and which shall permit of theentire length of the bowl, from the feed. end to the squeeze-rolls,being made available to agitate and wash the wool in. We accomplishthese objects by the mechanism shown in the accompanying drawings, inwhich- Figure 1 is a side elevation with the side of the bowl removed.Fig.2 is a plan; Fig. 3, an elevation of the lower squeeze-roll andcarrier .mechanism attached removed from the mashaft by the eccentrics70 it, placed upon shaft 1.

Z is the eccentric-rod. By this the frame e is oscillated over the faceof the roll without coming into contact with it or interfering with itsrotation. The arms 6 are provided with teeth or spurs g g, which projectforward and upward so that they will readily catch. into the wool as thearms move upward and as readily disengage themselves as thearms movedownward when the frame is oscillated around the shaft b.

m is a frame, made and supported exactly as is frame 6, carried uponarms f, straps h, and moved by arms by eccentrics'on shaft 1, allconstructed and operated like the similar parts of frame 6 and itsdriving mechanism. The arms of the frame on overlie the roll B betweenthe arms of the frame 0', and move at each part of their time ofoscillation in an opposite direction, the eccentrics k It being placedon the shaft Z, so as to give opposite throws to the arms j andj. Bythis means one set of toothed bars is engaged in elevating the woolwhich may have come into contact with their teeth,

while the other is returning to engage such fibers, and then upwardtoward the nip of the roll by their return movement, while the first setare making their backward movement. By this construction the entirelength of the bowl up to the squeeze-roll, excepting only the thicknessof the toothed bars of the frame 0, is made available for washing andsecuring the wool in, and much space heretofore lost is made availablefor such purpose. The wool may be fed forward in the bowl in any desiredmanner, either by hand or mechanical means, and this carrier used.

In the machine shown in the drawings, specially adapted to rinse woolafter being washed, we feed the wool forward by forcing a strong streamof water into the bowl through the pipe n, entering below the rolls andgiven a'line of direction parallel with the bottom, so that the waterrushes toward the feed end of the bowl,

and, striking against the curved unperforated part of the false bottom,is deflected upward under the wool as it is fed into the machine, whenit flows back toward the squeeze-rolls, carrying the wool with it,afterwhich it settles down and passes through the perforations in the falsebottomaud flows under it toward the overflow p, which we put in near thewaterline at the feed end of the bowl, in front of the unperforated partof the false bottom a, which extends up to the topof the bowl in thismachine.

What we claim as new and of our invention is 1. The combination of thebowl A and the roll B, adapted to operate as a squeeze-roll, with theoscillating frames 0 and m, adapted to oscillate about the axis of theroll, substantially as described.

2. The combination of the roll D, rotating on the shaft 7), with theframes e and m, provided with toothed arms carried by arms supported onsuch shaft, and the eccentrics k and 7c, arms j j, and straps h and h,substantially as described.

3. The combination of the bowl A, squeezerolls B and O, andreciprocating toothed feeding-frames e and m, oscillating alternately inopposite directions around and substantially parallel to the surface ofthe lower feed-roll, substantially as described.

4. The combination of the bowl A, provided with the inductpipe n,entering below the water-line at the discharge end of the bowl, andhaving a line of direction parallel with the bottom of the bowl, withthe false bottom to,

extending up with a curved unperforated part to a point above the levelof the fluid, in the bowl at the feed end thereof, and the overflow p,substantially as described.

5. The combination of the bowl A, the feedrolls B O, the pipe n,directed to throw its stream under the feed-rolls and toward theopposite end of the bowl, the false bottom a, and

the overflow-pipe p, substantially as described.

F. e. SARGENT. A. o. SARGENT.

